Leading the list of the top 20 most effective organizations making a difference in culture, based on a survey among Christian conservatives, were the American Center for Law and Justice (35 percent) and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (33 percent). The list was compiled through a study conducted by the California-based American Culture & Faith Institute.

U2 vocalist Bono has been spending the past years reading and out life lessons from the Bible, particularly from the book of Psalms that offers ancient hymns and poetry. From his studies, Bono realized that art often calls for honesty.

Pastor Saeed Abedini said that when he was still detained in Iran, he was taken out of prison and brought to Day Hospital in Tehran to be tortured while his mother watched.
“They attack me and they grabbed me and they throw me to their car like a lamb,” he recounted, “and when hospital nurses came to help me they punched them to their chest and throw them to the wall.”

Deaf Christians often find it a challenge to locate a church they can attend because not all churches offer deaf accessible services. To address this need, an organization has set up a database that provides information for deaf Christians looking for churches that can accommodate them.

More than 3,000 former Muslims were recently baptized as Christians in various sites of the Assembly of Living God Church across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. However, the church sent out an urgent call for prayer for the recovery and protection of a ministry leader who suffered from damage to the skull after being stoned by extremists.

Former pro football athlete and current author, motivational speaker and actor T. C. Stallings said the Lord shifted his passion from sports to acting, and he deliberately has managed that part of his career through film representation that protects his faith. "God is author of my life, and the director of my movies," he proclaims.

New York Times bestselling author Joel Richardson identified the location of what the book of Revelation in the Bible refers to as “Mystery Babylon,” the place where the Anti-Christ would come from—and it’s not what most people believe it to be.

One of the most well-known broadcasters in America's history, Paul Harvey, voiced a powerful and straightforward Super Bowl TV commercial for Ram Trucks in 1978, which is being lifted up today as one of the most memorable Super Bowl ads of the past...partially because God plays a starring role in the commercial.

Since the beginning of Christendom, Christians have disagreed. They’ve disagreed about doctrines and politics, social and personal questions, and the list could go on. Our day is no different. Much like iconoclasts defacing artwork in the 1500s, in our disagreements waged on the social feeds of Facebook and Twitter today, we Christians continue to wrestle with the importance of disagreeing well with one another. The following faculty conversation weighs in on this question of disagreement and provides thoughtful insight into the nature of disagreement as part of the Christian life.

As evangelical Christians, we are guided by the Bible to be particularly concerned for the plight of refugees, individuals who have been forced to flee their countries because of the threat of persecution. Evangelical churches and ministries have long played a key role in welcoming, resettling, and assisting in the integration of refugees from various parts of the world. As such, we are troubled by the recent executive order temporarily halting refugee resettlement and dramatically reducing the number of refugees who could be considered for resettlement to the U.S.

A coalition of evangelical and Pentecostal leaders have organized a 100-day intercessory prayer for the newly inaugurated president of the United States, Donald Trump, particularly for his first 100 days in office.

The fight for religious freedom in Nepal is like a tug-of-war where victory takes it one step forward, only to be countered by a setback that takes it one step backward. However, despite all these, the church keeps growing.

In what some people are calling the most high-profile religious persecution case since the Cultural Revolution, the former pastor of China's largest state-run megachurch was arrested on Saturday by a local public security bureau in China's coastal Zhejiang province, according to persecution watchdog China Aid. Authorities reportedly re-apprehended Gu "Joseph" Yuese sometime before Christmas; on Jan. 7, his family received an announcement he had been arrested on charges of embezzling funds.

While many countries have opened their doors to Muslim migrants from the Middle East, the journey has not been as easy for Christians in search of new homes after fleeing from intense persecution from their countries. However, an aid agency that extends help specifically to Christians is working to change the picture.

In a miraculous turn of events, a Deaf Muslim man embraced Christianity after a friend invited him to a church where he was introduced to a sign language translation of the Scriptures for the first time.

Downsized worship centers, smaller churches and increased focus on evangelism are among the major trends expected to overtake churches this year. The 10 major church trends projected for 2017 is a mix of both good and bad, and there appears to be a going back to the neighborhood church format described in the Book of Acts.